Opinion

Dear Editor, I wonder if readers of SN noticed the recent death of the American Whitney Smith at the age of 76?

Dear Editor, The last person in this country to speak about lack of professionalism and recklessness should be Valmikki Singh.

Dear Editor, It was yet another sad state of affairs for the remaining old age pensioners who had to go on the second given date at the Amerindian hostel in Suddie to collect their pension books for next year.

Dear Editor, As someone who was instrumental in engineering the formation and victory of the PNCR-led administration, I have over the term of the new government had cause for reflection on its conduct and the policy positions it has adopted. 

Christmas is mere days away. This week, the city is abuzz with throngs of people, particularly in the main shopping areas, fetching the ubiquitous black shopping bag, rolled-up rugs and vinyl for floors, Christmas trees, et al.

Dear Editor, A letter written by me was published in the Stabroek News on December 10, in which I mentioned the slow or no response to reports of crime made at the Aurora Police Station (‘Increase in crime in Good Hope-Supenaam area’). 

Dear Editor, The police force needs to devise a system that would prevent residents from Region 2 having to travel all the way to its finance office in the city to get bail refunds for monies lodged at stations in the district.

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to draw attention to the rather unprofessional and disrespectful manner in which the Linden Senior Citizen Association and Funeral Home has been treated by the Guyana Police Force ‘D’ Division, Linden/Region 10 with respect to the funeral service it operates, as told to me by the administrative supervisor, the secretary manager and assistant secretary manager.

Dear Editor, Too many of our young people in Guyana are sliding down a hill into immorality and a life of crime.

Dear Editor, There has been much clamour about sugar being what brought us here.

Dear Editor, Seniors in the Greater Richmond Hill area were treated to a special holiday luncheon and showered with gifts by Indo-Guyanese community leaders of Little Guyana.

Right after expressions of concern, reflected in one of our editorials last week, about the stances that president-elect Donald Trump will take vis-à-vis the two great non-Western powers, Russia and China, an incident in the South China Sea has pointed further directions in which relations between the US and those powers might well evolve.

Dear Editor, Misinformation is being peddled by the opposition members on their weekly TV programme here in Berbice. 

Dear Editor, After some months abroad, I recently returned to Guyana and it was brought to my attention, and I read with interest, the report in Stabroek News of Friday, November 11, 2016 under the banner headline: ‘High Court orders TSC to review applications for teacher promotions.’

Dear Editor, Sunday Stabroek’s editorial ‘Party script’, which asserts that the election last Thursday for mayor of Georgetown was a “bad day for democracy”, did not quite identity any violations of core democratic principles and practices.

Dear Editor, For those of us who know better of the organisational relationships legally established between the Ministry of Health originally (now Ministry of Public Health) and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, this is a plea for the incumbent Minister and colleagues to at least read the Act under which the Georgetown Hospital became incorporated.

Dear Editor, According to reports in the SN and KN, Michelle Baker did all the right things to obtain protection from the man who attacked her.